eBAY = WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE NEXT WEEK

[crn303]

I wonder how things will be on eBay in a weeks time on Friday 18th April ?

eBay have less sellers, buyers and listings,

eBay continues to see their bottom line shrink,

eBay still not listening,

eBay still clueless.

All predictions welcome.

[roberpalme_236]

We wake up and find it's all been a bad dream?

[auctionmike1]

How about our only delivery option is to hand-deliver personally?

[roberpalme_236]

Ebay to charge £5 plus PPF (poster protection fee) to post a comment on the community forum, to be charged retrospectively back to the year 2000.

[carrotdrusus2]

While paying EBay £50 and offering the item free for the privilege!!

[edwardian-dreams]

That would be nice (well not nice nightmares aren’t nice) 

but it will be mayhem imo

it cant not be 

and who knows ebay will come out with

weve listened to your feedback, our customers are our priority, we are cancelling stupid delivery 

or at least making it less stupid 

[sellingmystuff642]

once it becimes mandatory ebay will see how much stuff gets undercharged, refused etc with SD. The only way they will change anything is if it costs them a lot of money via compensation and lost sales/profits.

[m25jet]

eBay will introduce a paid-up "Members Only" policy across all of their sites, requiring all buyers and sellers alike to set up an ongoing monthly direct debit to eBay just for the privilege of being allowed to buy and sell on their site.  Anybody who objects to the new ruling will have their accounts closed immediately, at which point they will receive an indefinite buying and selling ban so as to prevent them from opening a new account in order to buy and sell on any of eBay's sites again.  Yes, I know it sounds crazy, but we all know by now that eBay don't make good, solid business decisions that have been well thought out before being implemented...

[fantailsforme]

eBay will dump Royal Mail, Evri etc., as the compensation is costing to much and as eBay have now become AI obsessed, postage will be by drone which will be charged by the mile.

[jma2815]

I think they’ll be just fine. My category is picking up again after a few stagnant days, with some very expensive items listed. 

I’m done though. I’m enjoying not having to worry about it. 

If things improve I might return. I was enjoying collecting and selling high end/boutique vintage clothing as a hobby so there really isn’t another platform for me. V - inted won’t work at the higher price points and I hate et*sy with a passion. 

[edwardian-dreams]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

this is half the problem

they get people straight out of college to tinker with the computers and programmes and their other little whatnots 

they wouldn’t know what a large letter in the uk was if it smacked them in the face 

but at least were informed our parcels might be cabin sized luggage 

reminds me of billy connolly an audience with - having a go at winsy Willis and the weather maps with stuck on clouds lightning sunshine 

I know what a bloo dy cloud looks like just tell me - i’ll  understand 

so just tell me medium size parcel

i can look it up in case I don’t know

[fashionista27]

what are the reasons you hate et*sy? I was considering selling there.

[theelench]

Nothing.

Ebay will ignore all the posts and Chat Sessions that told them this was a really bad idea.

The Community Team will come out of hiding and tell everyone that the problems have been reported to the relevant teams and will be back later to up-date.

Ebay will carry on with less sellers, less buyers and less sales but the CEO will gloss over the declining numbers with yet more B S and calm the shareholders by announcing another share buy-back.

Any dip in ebay. inc. revenue and profits in their Quarterly Earnings Statements will probably be passed off as due to the effects of Trumps Tariffs and the press will be told that ebay is working on another new strategy to cover the losses and that growth is just around the corner etc etc.

[birsayboy7]

Ebay private sellers in the UK make up a "drop in the ocean" of the world wide platform, and therefore, in the scheme of things unimportant. We've become Lab rats for this experiment - and once a Lab rat, always a Lab rat - if there any of us left to keep testing on.

[morseidiot2]

I sold there for a bit

Lets just say Fee transparency is not their strong point

[theelench]

So true, always use the most expendable to experiment on first and as an an added bonus every one that they can get rid of is one that they won't have any need to report to HMRC on in the future.

I wonder if once we're all gone or pushed into becoming business sellers ebay will abolish their "Operating" fee.

Who cares, there are plenty of alternatives for private sellers these days.

[jma2815]

@fashionista27 

I tried to set up there selling handmade clothing and craft supplies. It was awful. 

You’re treated as a business (shop owner) on e*sy whether you like it or not . You need super, super professional photos and now videos for your items, shop ‘policies’ and business success are all anyone talks about on their forums. Be under no illusions - you work for e*sy and they never let up on the pressure to ‘work harder’ (spoiler - its not possible to work hard enough for e*sy).  You’re competing against Chinese factories who pretend to be individual artisans. These are of course given priority. 

Fees of around 35% plus other charges, with no transparency at all. Very high charges for sales that come through compulsory offsite advertising, including facebook. Pressure to start with a minimum of 100 listings, (all paid up front at 25p each for 30 days with automatic renewal) and a warning that your listings will be ‘less visible if you have fewer than 100 listings. Payouts are once a month in US dollars and the exchange rate is appalling. I only sold a couple of items and my et*y bill was many times bigger than my takings both times I tried it. . 

Pressure to offer ‘free express shipping’ yet keep your prices low. If you don’t offer free shipping your listings will be put to the back of searches, sometimes that means hundreds of pages back. Sellers in the USA are always given priority in search, even in the UK and even if you’ve tried to narrow search to ‘local’ shops. Your items will be put to the back of searches if you’re shop is deemed not to be ‘succeeding’ and all your money can be held for months or your shop closed for no reason. 

And  on top of all that I believe they now charge a £25 ‘set up fee’ for new shops.  Its not an alternative to ebay in any way. You don’t just list whatever you want and sell. 

[the-nutwood-collection]

As your stuff's high end and boutique vintage, have you thought of peer-to-peer hiring?  It's becoming increasingly popular.

[andha-21]

I doubt we'll see the real answer in a week. It's going to take time to filter through. The real crux will be how eBay handle refunds for damaged/lost items.

From everything they've said so far, that I've seen, my instincts say that private sellers are being set up and eBay won't be making refunds for sellers an easy thing.

If that happens that's when we'll see the big problems start. It'll go through the userbase like wildfire and then it really depends who is prepared to risk selling here.